Kabul, 27 April: The government of Afghanistan and its Western backers have described people of Afghanistan as embracing democracy in the wake of current 2014 presidential elections. Nevertheless, the election outcome has exposed the farce of democratic elections in bringing change as well as the overplayed drama of democratic practice by people of Afghanistan.

The following points are worth noting in this regard:

1. According to Election Commission Statistics, only around 20 percent (less than 7 million) of Afghanistan's population of 33 million people have voted.

2. It is very clear that people who voted, they did so based on tribal and ethnic loyalties, not for democracy. In Kabul - with a population of five million people - where tribal and ethnic inclinations are less dominant, only around five hundred thousand people casted votes; a clear rejection of democracy in the country's capital.

3. According initial results of the 100 percent votes announced by Election Commission last evening, the election has no winners.

It is concluded that people of Afghanistan have rejected democracy, but tribalism and ethnicity lingers. Afghanistan's geopolitics has remained a major strategic challenge throughout its modern history and it will remain so until nationalism remains the basis of the country's political system.

As always, future of Afghanistan will now be shaped, not by votes people have casted, but by Western domination, by the country's geopolitical nature and by tribal and ethnic drive for dominance.

Only the justice of Islam under the Khilafah "Caliphate" state will take Afghanistan out of its geopolitical predicaments and place it on the path to prosperity and development together with the rest of the Ummah of Rasolullah (saw).

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Afghanistan